entrepreneurs- were interested in finding new business opportunities and new ways to make a profit. Many British people were wealthy and were known as this.
capital- Britian had a ready supply of money or capital, to invest in the new industrial machines and the factories needed to house them
cottage industry- it was a method of producation that in which tasks are done by the individuals in their own rural homes
puddling- is the process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron
industrial capitalism- is an economic system based on the industrial productionor of the manufacturing. Industrial capitalism produced a new middle-class group th industrial middle class.
socialism- is a system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production
romanticism- an intellectual movenment that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in reaction to the ideas of the Enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing
secularization- it was the indifference to or rejection of the religion or of the religious consideration. The nineteeth century was the age of increasing secularization.
realism- is the mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower- and middle class life as it actually was
natural section- was the principle set forth by Darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others; in popular terms, "survival of the fittest
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Thomas Edison- he ivented the light bulb and because of his creation Joseph Swan in Great Britain opened homes and cities to electric lights.
James Watt- the cotton industry became even more productive when the steam engine wd was inmproved by James, he made changes that enabled the engine to drive machinery.
Alexander Graham Bell- he invented the telephone in 1876.
Charles Darwin- published On the Orgin of Species of Natural Selection. The basic idea of the book was that each kind of animal and plant had evolved over a long period of time from earlier to simpler forms of life.
Charles Dickens- he became very successful with his novels as Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, he described the urban poor and the brutal life they led with vivid realism.
Guglielmo Marconi- he sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901.
Albert Einstein- a German born scientist published his theory of relativity, which stated that space and time are not absolute but are relative to the observer.
Sigmund Freud- proposed a series of theories that raised questions about nature of the human mind. He thought human behavior was strongly determined by past experiences and internal forces of which people were unaware.
Marie Curie- discovered that an element called radium gave off energy, or radiation, that apparently came from within the atom itself.
Claude Monet- who painted pictures in which he sought to capture the interplay of light, water, and sky.
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- entrepreneurs- were interested in finding new business opportunities and new ways to make a profit. Many British people were wealthy and were known as this.
- capital- Britian had a ready supply of money or capital, to invest in the new industrial machines and the factories needed to house them
- cottage industry- it was a method of producation that in which tasks are done by the individuals in their own rural homes
- puddling- is the process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron
- industrial capitalism- is an economic system based on the industrial productionor of the manufacturing. Industrial capitalism produced a new middle-class group th industrial middle class.
- socialism- is a system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production
- romanticism- an intellectual movenment that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in reaction to the ideas of the Enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing
- secularization- it was the indifference to or rejection of the religion or of the religious consideration. The nineteeth century was the age of increasing secularization.
- realism- is the mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower- and middle class life as it actually was
- natural section- was the principle set forth by Darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others; in popular terms, "survival of the fittest
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